Adults

Nicole is a licensed psychotherapist and clinical supervisor at Mental Health Systems (MHS) in Roseville, MN. At MHS, she facilitates Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) groups and provides mindfulness-based individual therapy to adolescents (16+) and adults. Nicole has clinical, research and training, community development, and lived experience in transracial/transnational adoption, birth family search/reunion, suicide/prevention, mindfulness, trauma, identity development, and life transitions.

County Case Management/Permanency.

Address:
Chisago County Health and Human Services
313 North Main Street
Center City, MN 55012

Julie is the executive director of Main Street Family Services, a social service agency whose focus is to support parents and their children with resources, solutions, and practical strategies they need to thrive. Julie is a social worker who has spent 20 years of her career supporting adoptive & foster care parents, and the biological parents of children who are in out-of-home placement. Julie is also a parent, adoptive parent, and grandparent.

I have worked in child protection (county agency) since 2006. My practice runs from the assignment of a child protection case, fresh from assessment/investigation, through to permanency. In 2024, I became Child Protection Team Lead for the ongoing case managers, which shifts the focus of my work to half-time leadership. This includes case assignment, frequent consultation, case audit, and court report/case plan reviews. The other half of my time, I am out doing a job I love just as much (case management), gathering stories and creating relationships.

My name is Bryanna Schnaible. I have my Masters Degree in School Counseling and Clinical Mental Health Counseling. I am currently a licensure candidate working toward licensure as an LPC. I am working with Greater Minnesota Family Services in the Redwood, MN area with early childhood and families.

Address:
Greater Minnesota Family Services
2320 Highway 12 E.
Suite 2
Willmar, MN 56201

I have been in the field of child welfare since 2008, many years prior spent working in groups homes and shelters. A majority of my county experience, short of 10 years, was in on-going case management, many of these as a Lead in the on-going unit. I then spent a few years doing FAR/Investigations before transitioning into adoptions. I am currently a Child Welfare Supervisor.

Address:
Sherburne County Health and Human Services
13880 Business Center Drive NW
Elk River, MN 55330

Address:
Crow Wing County Social Services
204 Laurel Street
Brainerd, MN 56401

Joy works with children, teens, and adults at Heart to Heart, focusing on trauma, adoption, and attachment. She practices individual, group, and family therapy. Joy graduated with a Master of Arts from Bethel University in May 2022. She is pursuing an LPCC and is working towards becoming a Registered Play Therapist.

Address:
Heart to Heart Child and Family Counseling
127 County Road C
Suite 6
Little Canada, MN 55117

I have worked in child welfare, kinship care, and adoption since 2004. I started out serving as a volunteer Guardian ad Litem with the Second Judicial District. From 2006-2017, I filled a variety of roles with the North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC) that primarily centered around advocacy, support, leadership capacity development, and education for youth, young adults, families, and professionals within the foster care, kinship care, and adoption communities.

I have been providing services to children, families, & communities for over 40 years, in child welfare, foster care, domestic abuse, tribal social services, recreational therapy, children's residential services, adolescent chemical dependency, & education. Currently, an Assistant Professor-BASW Practicum Director with the College of St Scholastica's Social Work Department, trainer with University of Minnesota in Permanency & Adoption Certificate Program (PACC) & as a QI (qualified individual) & trainer of new QI's.